Summer Design Club (11-14)

This live design and building workshop is run by local architecture practice Studio Bark and its sister non-profit, U-Build. Over two days, they will show participants how to think like an architect: creating a design brief, sketching ideas, making models, refining designs, and ultimately the creation of a full scale installation at Young V&A, which will be open to the public in the Town Square on Wednesday 13 August.

Day 1: Monday 11 August, 11.00 - 16.00.
Registration from 10.30am
Participants will imagine and design a new (full scale) temporary space for Young V&A's town square where we will invite visitors to explore, play, hangout to be creative and be themselves. The brief is theirs to explore through sketching and model making and first hand research across the galleries.

Day 2:  Tuesday 12 August, 11.00 - 16.00.
Participants will prototype their ideas in full scale, using modular wooden ‘U-Build’ blocks. They will also have the opportunity to explore the creation of posters and branding, using Risograph printing, before installing their final co-designed architecture in the Town Square.

Day 3: Wednesday 13 August
(Optional and drop-in)
Participants and their families will be invited back to experience the final installation designed, developed and built by Summer Design Club participants.

Studio Bark is a leading environmental architectural practice based locally in Cambridge Heath, London, working with residential, retrofit, community, and public arts projects. They create thoughtful, practical architecture for a changing world, and are motivated by compassion towards people and planet. Studio Bark are vocal in communicating what they believe in. They are also the creators of the U-Build modular building system, and Small Carbon whole life carbon counting software.

U-Build is a low-impact, inclusive building system guided by circular economy principles. Our aim is to make construction simple so that anyone can participate. We make re-usable building components. We say yes to creativity, yes to participation but no to skips.

Further Information:
Young people in attendance must be between the ages of 11-14.
This is a drop off workshop, once you have booked your young person onto Summer Design Club we will follow up with a permissions form and further information. Please expect to hear from us by 7 August at the latest.